Write a commentIn 1978, Douglas Fraser, the President of United Auto Workers (UAW), wrote a resignation letter that stated, "The business community...
have chosen to wage a one-sided class war today in this country—a war against working people, the unemployed, the poor, the minorities, the very young and the very old, and even many in the middle class of our society."
UAW President Shawn Fain admitted last year, "Both parties share blame for the one-sided class war that corporate America has waged on our union, and on working-class Americans for decades."
Business Week wrote in 1994, "Over the past dozen years... U.S. industry has conducted one of the most successful anti-union wars ever." The Economic Policy Institute (EPI) said, for decades, workers "encountered multibillion-dollar corporations who are prepared to do whatever is necessary, lawful or unlawful, to crush their organizing campaigns."
On both sides of the aisle, "Congress has failed workers for decades. Policymakers have not raised the minimum wage in nearly 20 years." The self-described most pro-union president, Joe Biden, signed legislation to block a national U.S. railroad strike.
Founding Father, John Jay, said, "The people who own the country ought to govern it." Professors Martin Gilens and Benjamin I. Page demonstrated, "Economic elites and organized groups representing business interests have substantial independent impacts on U.S. government policy." Meanwhile, "average citizens have little or no independent influence."
Or as the BBC clarified, "In English: the wealthy few move policy, while the average American has little power." You don't need to read Forbes to know, "The rich are simply getting richer," as nearly 12 million children live in poverty in the US.
President Trump intensified the one-sided class war waged against the working class. The Big Beautiful Law obliterated the safety net for the poor and reduced taxes for the rich. The New York Times wrote, "around 7.5 million Americans [will] lose health insurance," and 2.4 million Americans will lose food stamps. Yet, the Wall Street Journal reported, the Big Beautiful Law rewarded America's biggest corporations with a cash windfall. There's "More cash in the company's pocket."
The EPI documented, "Trump and his Department of Labor (DOL) recently announced a massive deregulation effort, robbing U.S. workers of dozens upon dozens of rules that protect them." Including rules that protect workers' wages. It's been "a major shirking of the federal government's responsibility to demand accountability from businesses who profit from billions in taxpayer dollars."
In the headlines, the US global trade war reignited. The Financial Times admitted "that the US will be poorer because of its tariffs." The Financial Times continued, "Tariffs are causing businesses to raise the prices they charge... which will show up in higher consumer prices over time." The Wall Street Journal stressed, ordinary "Americans will pay a big chunk of the tariff [tax]." Inflation and grocery prices will increase. While real workers' wages will decrease.
That's the whole point of a one-sided class war that corporations and the ruling class wage against the working class.
